Re: What about a glob standard method in Ada.Command_Line ?

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Aug 23, 5:02 pm, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Le Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:06:37 +0200, Randy Brukardt <ra...@rrsoftware.com>  
> a écrit:> It would surely help to have some idea of what a "glob" is! And  
> > explained in
> > some way which is not specific to any particular OS.
>
> The old one inherited from first UNIX and which while old is still part of  
> many core libraries (C, Python, Eiffel, Pascal, etc) and one of the most  
> commonly used to handle command-line parameters, the one which as an  
> example, from a "/directory/*.adb" returns an array of strings for all the  
> files matching the pattern.

Although a function like that would perhaps be useful, it would
definitely not belong in Ada.Command_Line or a child.  Some child of
Ada.Directories would be a much better place.

By the way, I was just as befuddled as Randy about the meaning of
"glob" even though I've done lots of work with Unix and C.  The shell
expands stuff on the command line, so I've never had any desire to use
the program or library function that does this.  I thought "glob"
meant a typical C program that is so impenetrable that it looks more
like a glob of random characters than like actual instructions for a
computer...... :)

                            -- Adam